Statty

Norris and Ross McWhirter, who had been running a fact-finding agency in London, were recommended to Beaver as suitable for the task of running the show. The brothers were commissioned to compile what became the Guinness Book of Records in August 1954. The statty, Glasgow-born brothers even became regulars on Castle's children's TV show.

There is now an orthodoxy about how to commentate on sport which few broadcasters attempt to challenge. Serious, statty, chatty. This could be down to a malaise in recruitment but is more likely an inevitable consequence of professional evolution.